Thesis XVIII. Indeed Albert Pighius, a doctor of some fame, dared on this point to set himself against the common view of the Roman School a little before the time of the Council of Trent.
As Bellarmine reports, these are his words in the fifth book of his work On Free Choice: 'We shall look for the various senses of grace not in the schools but in Holy Scripture. For in the schools they generally imagine some quality created in (increatam) our soul by God, either the same as the habit of charity or distinct from it. I judge all this to be invented, with no authority from Scripture.'
Latin
XVIII. Et certe Albertus Pighius Doctor non incelebris, paulo ante tempora Concilii Tridentini, ausus est hac in parte communi sententiae Scholae Romanae sese opponere. Haec enim, referente Bellarmino, sunt illius verba libro quinto de Libero Arbitrio. Gratiae acceptionem variam, non ex Scholis, sed ex divinis scripturis petemus. Quandoquidem in illis fere imaginantur qualitatem aliquam increatam animae nostrae a Deo; vel eandem cum charitatis habitu, vel distinctam ab eodem. Quae commentitia universa existimo, nec ex scripturis ullam authoritatem habere.